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Article Title: Information and Communication Technology as Teaching and Learning Space for Teachers of English Language in Schools
by Akele, Folasade Esther

Abstract:
The pragmatic approach of technology to teaching and learning problems has brought a great relief to pedagogy. Through the use of modern technology, teaching and learning processes are easier, efficacious, real, applicable to practical situations, relevant to life, retentive, and simplified, but cannot replace the role played by teachers. This study is a descriptive research of the survey type. It is an appraisal of the teaching of English language in Ado-Ekiti Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria. The sample used for this paper consisted of forty English language teachers randomly selected from seven secondary schools in Ado-Ekiti. A simple random sampling technique and self- structured validated questionnaire were used for the study. The purpose of this study is to examine the necessity of ICT and emphasize its importance as teaching and learning space in the contemporary digitalised day to day teaching of English language in schools. To this end, the immense merits of utilizing ICT as a supplement to teaching and learning would be enunciated. From this study, all and sundry would know the usefulness of ICT as teaching and learning space and the reason why the integration of ICT into teaching and learning is ineluctable. Through this research, English teachers would take cognizance of other effective and efficient means of teaching, to which ICT belong besides the traditional method and they would know the consequences of being computer illiterates in this highly competitive world of technology. This paper shows the results, discussions, and recommendations.

Keywords: information and communication technology (ICT), english language teaching, teaching and learning space, ICT teaching tools, pedagogical methods, social software

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